1. Identify your Q3 priorities; 2. Break them into bite-sized actions; 3. Say no to everything else.

Sit down and figure out what your biggest priorities are in the book. Traction, they call it rocks, you might call them priorities. I want you to look ahead at the next 90 days, and I want you to write down your three or four biggest priorities for the quarter. Now, these priorities should be aligned in some way, shape or form with the goals you set at the beginning of the year. But the rocks that you set for you and your team every quarter should be aligned with your annual goals, because every quarter, you should be getting one step closer to achieving your annual goals. You see, when you block the time now, you can chew off your big rocks one bite at a time. What most people do is they don't put it on the calendar, they don't think about it. And September 1st, they look up and go, oh, crap, we got 30 days to go. And then it's too late. This is why quarterly planning is so effective, is because it stacks the small wins one task at a time that lead to the massive wins one year at a time.